Glare screen mounting for motor vehicles



Aug. 15, 1950 1.. A. BELL.

GLARE SCREEN MOUNTING FOR MOTOR VEHICLES Filed Aug. 22, 1947 INVENTOR. LEE ALEXA/male 5&4 5,4,, m

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Patented Aug. 15, 1950 GLARE SCREEN MOUNTING FOR oron VEHICLES 7 Lee Alexander Beavakhia, Pa. Application August 22', 1947, SerialNo. 770,141

2 Claims.

My invention relates to glare screens that are placed in the line of vision between the user and a bright light, for the purpose of eliminating or reducing glare, and is here shown as employed in connection with an automobile windshield for the purpose of relieving the drivers eyes from the glare of on-coming head lights or bright sunlight.

The invention has for one of its objects the provision of a glare screen wherein the frame member therefor is of such form as to present a minimum of obstruction to the drivers vision in a generally sidewise and forward direction, the semi-transparent screen being nevertheless adequately supported.

Another object of my invention is to provide a simplified and improved form of universal mounting for the screen.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a face view of the screen and its supporting members; Fig. 2 is an end view thereof; Fig. 3 is a view taken on the line III-11I of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is an enlarged view taken approximately on the line IV-IV of Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the adjusting gears of the other figures.

The screen is shown as mounted upon a wood strip I such as are mounted in an inclined position above the windshield, in various standard.

types of automobiles. A base plate 8 is connected to the strip I by screws and has a socket-like extension 9 to receive a ball member In, the members 9 and I0 constituting part of a ball-andsocket joint.

A socket member l I has a screw thread formed thereon for threaded engagement with the tubular-like extension l2 of the base 8. A toothed member l3, in the form of a gear wheel, is formed integrally with the member IT, so that when the gear wheel is turned, the plug-like socket member II will be screwed further into A liner M of rubber or other soft material is provided in the socket member II, and a metal plate l5 of dished form snugly fits the liner [4 and. the

ball Ill. The metal of the ball l0 will preferably be of different hardness than the member l5 so as to give better friction. The liner disc I4, of

course, gives a desired yieldability in the joint.

A stud [6 having a notched head for a screw driver is journaled in the base 8, and at its inner end, has a pinion l1 rigidly secured thereto and meshing with the gear wheel B, so that when the stud I6 is turned by a screw driver, the threaded plug II will be rotated to change the tension and frictional force on the ball l0,

The ball Ill has formed integrally therewith an extension that is bifurcated and widened to form clip elements [8 and IS. The outermost ends of the elements I8 and I9 have inturned lips 20 and 2| respectively formed thereon to extend beneath the edges of a metal channel 22. A screw 23 serves to hold the elements I8! 9 in gripping engagement with the channel 22, the lips 28-2! affording positive vertical support for the frame 22.

The channel frame 22 is of inverted U-form and receives the upper edge portion of a glare screen plate 25 which may be made of a single sheet of tinted plate glass, or may be of laminated form wherein the adhesive film between two sheets of glass is tinted to the desired shade. The plate 25 will be held in the frame 22 by suitable adhesive material. The lips 20-2! are preferably made of such length that they will not actually engage the glass when the screw 23 is tightened.

When more positive connection is required between the frame 22 and the glass than that afforded by the glue, the glass will have notches 21 ground therein, to receive studs or screws 28 that extend through the channel frame and positively hold the glass in place.

The legs of the frame 22 are made of short vertical length relative to the plate 25 so that they will not interfere seriously with sidewise vision of the driver, but they are still of sufilcient length to adequately support the glass against strains imposed thereon when the driver grasps the lower edge of the plate to swing it to various angular positions. In order to permit the glass to be swung upwardly to approximately the roof of the car, notwithstanding the fact that the frame members 1 and the joint are mounted in an inclined plane, a notch 26 is provided in the socket 12 to receive the shank of the extension l8-l9 when the plate 25 is moved to its uppermost position.

I claim as my invention:

1. A glare screen comprising a frame for supporting a plate, a ball element carried by the frame, a socket member having a seat that partly encloses the outermost surface of the ball, the rearmost portion of the member being attachable to a support, a second socket member in the rear part of the other socket member, and engageable with the rearmost surface of the ball, a threaded. connection between the two socket members, a pinion journaled in the base of the first-named socket member, and a gear wheel secured to the 5990. 16 599 231? member and meshing with the pinion, whereby through turning of the pinion the socket members will be relatively adjusted to vary their frictional holding force on the ball.

2. An adjustable mounting for a supporting member, comprising a ball element secured at its outer side to said member, a socket member having a seat that partly encloses the outermost surface of the ball, the rearmost portion of the socket member having a base attachable toa support, a second socket member in the rear part of the first-named socket member and engagesocket relatively adjusted to vary their frictional holding force on the ball.

LEE ALEXANDER BELL.

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